Harper's Novels, Band 11

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Harper & Bros., 1843
 

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Seite 84 - Awake : The morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us ; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tender plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Seite 84 - As through unquiet rest : he on his side Leaning, half raised, with looks of cordial love Hung over her enamoured, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces ; then with voice Mild, as when Zephyrus on Flora breathes, Her hand soft touching, whispered thus : " Awake, My fairest, my espoused, my latest found, Heaven's last best gift, my ever-new delight...
Seite 63 - Are not you moved, when all the sway of earth Shakes like a thing unfirm? O Cicero, I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds Have rived the knotty oaks, and I have seen The ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam...
Seite 1 - Here didst thou dwell, here schemes of pleasure plan, Beneath yon mountain's ever beauteous brow, But now, as if a thing unblest by Man, Thy fairy dwelling is as lone as thou! Here giant weeds a passage scarce allow To halls deserted, portals gaping wide ; Fresh lessons to the thinking bosom, how Vain are the pleasaunces on earth supplied ; Swept into wrecks anon by Time's ungentle tide.
Seite 84 - Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so customed ; for his sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred, And temperate vapours bland, which the only sound Of leaves and fuming rills, Aurora's fan, Lightly dispersed, and the shrill matin song Of birds on every bough.
Seite 95 - ... the last state of that man was worse than the first.' No sooner was his health re-established than Fernando was anxious to be afloat again, partly to hasten the time of his probation, partly .to earn more money wherewith to enable him to marry the pure, good child whose heart he had won. His skill in...
Seite 10 - ... pretty head out of the hammock — like a bird peering out of its nest, and looked at him, her little cherry lips half open, but seeming afraid to disturb him by saying more ; at last, he said — '"Ah! my sweet Laure, as we approach America I cannot help being anxious — I do not know why — but I feel that this voyage has been the happiest part of our lives.
Seite 33 - King, having given him his house, the Manor of St. Mary's, in York, for the honour of God and the good of his people, he hoped that the same civility would be practised towards him which I used to others, in giving him a free and easy possession of it.
Seite 16 - I would you were not almost, but altogether, such as I am, except these bonds.
Seite 36 - I do love you, very, very much — I assure you I do." " And you will not let your father and mother turn you against me?" " Oh, they will love you too — you may depend on it they will — when you restore me to them — when I tell them all you have done to make me happy, and the fearful danger you have snatched me from, and come to share in, all out of love to me.

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